Benji Marshall announcement that he is leaving West Tigers now another significant issue for team……

You wouldn’t even need to change the Wests Tigers name if the club was relocated to Perth.

Sure, shifting the joint venture 4000km away to a new timezone is a running joke, but it will begin appealing to Tigers fans very soon if whispers about the Benji Marshall era are anything to go by.

Saturday’s drought-breaking win over the Dolphins in Marshall’s unofficial debut as head coach was a merciful pause for supporters, with the 24-23 triumph providing a glimpse in to a Benji-esque future of vibrance and flukey short kick-offs.

But barely 24 hours after Api Koroisau’s winning conversion bounced through off the crossbar, rumours about the new coach were already leaking from inside the Tigers mausoleum.

According to Danny Weidler in Sunday’s Sydney Morning Herald, powerbrokers are already concerned whether Marshall has the work ethic to withstand the role’s exacting extra-curricular tasks of dealing with media and Justin Pascoe.

It’s a breathtaking development as seldom does a workplace quibble over how much overtime a bloke is punching-in before he’s on the clock, nor scour the fine print on their own cooling-off period to undermine a favourite son- but we must remember who we are talking about here.

This is the Wests Tigers, a place where if there’s smoke, there’s firings. A club whose idea of ‘patience’ is generously granting a coach until Thursday to clear out his desk.